Pilot (S1E1)

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This week the Most Wanted Men discuss Season One, Episode One: "Pilot".

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You know, there’s a certain poetry to surrendering on your own terms. I arrived at FBI Headquarters in a tailored suit and vintage hat, like a gentleman — not in handcuffs, not dragged kicking and screaming from some Moldovan sewer pipe. No, I walked in with a proposition: a list of the world’s most elusive criminals, ones the Bureau doesn’t even know exist. And all I asked in return? A little chat with a rookie profiler named Elizabeth Keen, whose life, though she didn’t know it yet, was about to be dismantled like a cheap knockoff Rolex.

As the Bureau scrambled to vet my intentions, I handed them a gift — a terrorist named Ranko Zamani, presumed dead, now very much alive and plotting something deliciously theatrical. Together, Elizabeth and I danced our first tango through blood-stained art galleries, ticking bombs, and parenthood secrets wrapped in lies. It was messy, dangerous, and thrilling. But then again, most worthwhile relationships begin with a little chaos, don’t they?